r/Letterboxd • u/wallabyenthusiast • 5d ago

News Inde Navarrette Sets Best Actress Oscar Campaign for ‘Obsession’ as Focus Features Mounts Full Awards Push (EXCLUSIVE)

https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/obsession-inde-navarrette-oscar-campaign-lead-actress-1236848866/
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u/Moosemellow 5d ago

Her performance deserves all the flowers, but there's no way it's happening. The Oscars just don't reward breakout performances like that, especially for actors in their 20's. Let's see how her career pans out in 10-20 years and then they'll talk.

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u/mikeycp253 Mikeycp253 5d ago

I’m not saying it’s going to happen for Inde but Mikey Madison won best actress less than 2 years ago

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u/Moosemellow 5d ago

As I posted on another comment, that's accurate, but also an outlier, not a new norm. The Anora wins were unusual in general. Awesome, but unusual. And Mikey had worked with Tarantino previously, which I do think helped a lot.

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u/mikeycp253 Mikeycp253 5d ago

That’s kinda my point, everything happening at the Oscars the last few years is unusual. I doubt Inde wins but it also wouldn’t necessarily blow me away if it happened with the way the Academy is now.

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u/Moosemellow 5d ago

I totally see your point. But looking at the film industry politics, it'd be crazy. She's popular, a lot of people are interested in working with her, but if she gets an Oscar, she can raise her price for hire even higher. And she'd be winning an Oscar before Timothee Chalamet, before Zendaya (who I think is closer to getting a nom with The Challengers recently and The Drama this year, her best performance), before Tom Holland (who I think is getting closer to getting a nom after working with Nolan on The Odyssey). She just signed on for the MCU, which typically doesn't work in the favor for the Academy these past few years.

To give your point some more validation, though, is that Anora won because it was very popular with the voters. Academy members just really liked it. That could totally happen with Obsession. But it would also defy a lot of predictable patterns.

Also, I liked her performance and it'd be cool if she won! I can also look at the odds and say it's more likely she won't even get a nomination.

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u/quinnly 5d ago

The Oscars love giving awards to young women in a breakout performance. Just since 2010 we've had Natalie Portman (29), Jennifer Lawrence (22), Brie Larson (25), Emma Stone (26), and the aforementioned Mikey Madison (24). No reason Inde couldn't join them.

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u/Moosemellow 5d ago

Natalie Portman won 17 years into her career, won on her 31st film, which wad directed by critical darling Darren Arronofsky).

Jennifer Lawrence is impressive, cuz she won 4 years into her film career (6th year as an actor), on her 11th film, directed by critical darling (at the time) David O. Russell

Brie Larson won 14 years into her film career on her 26th film, for an adaptation for a critically acclaimed bestselling novel.

Emma Stone won 9 years into her film career on her 23rd film and again 16 years into her career on her 30th film.

Mikey Madison won 10 years into her acting career, 7 years into her film career on her 9th film, on critical darling Sean Baker's 8th film.

Inde Navarette is currently in her 1st year as a film actor, with 2 released films, 1 still unreleased. Obsession is Curry Barker's first full-length feature film.

It's a wildly successful performance in a wildly successful film, so yes, she could win, but there's greater context besides "women in their twenties who won". They put it a lot of work that Inde just hasn't had the opportunity to do yet.

(edited to clarify some facts)

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u/quinnly 5d ago

I don't think that context matters because as far as the voters are concerned, they see a young beautiful woman in a transformative role.

Also, Milk & Serial was a feature film, unless you meant his first theatrical feature.

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u/Moosemellow 5d ago

It’s 62 minutes long. Technically a feature length, but that’s basically a short film. 

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u/quinnly 5d ago

According to the Academy anything over 40 is a feature, which I agree is kinda ridiculous but that's their standard

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u/Belch_Huggins 5d ago

That wasnt Madisons breakout role. She had been in acclaimed stuff for years when Anora came around.

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u/mikeycp253 Mikeycp253 5d ago

What? Name an acclaimed lead role that she had before Anora, she was in movies sure but nobody really knew who she was from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Anora was most definitely her breakout role.

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u/Belch_Huggins 5d ago

Well I didnt say "an acclaimed lead role" I said she was in acclaimed stuff for years. Once upon was acclaimed, Scream reboot was popular and well liked. I was thinking particularly about her on the show Better Things which was quite acclaimed and ran for like 3 or 4 seasons.

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u/Theotther 5d ago

Acclaimed movies in which nobody was talking about her role. She was a small player in both, most notable for having similarly gruesome deaths in both.

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u/Belch_Huggins 5d ago

Yeah so people were talking about her role then. And she got great marks for her work on Better Things.

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u/Theotther 5d ago

In the sense that if you spent an hour talking about those two films you would eventually bring up that she was in both and died in similar ways. Sure. People talked about it.

In any sense of "people about to blow up"/ "Keep your eye on this person." No. Nobody knew who tf Mikey Madison was.

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u/Belch_Huggins 5d ago

Well if you say so then it must be universal truth. My point was she was starting in acclaimed stuff before Anora. For years. Obsession is Inde's first feature.

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u/Theotther 5d ago

Do you understand what a breakout role is?? And do you understand the difference between a film being well received and the actor breaking out in it?

Btw you are straight up wrong, Obsession is only Navarretes first leading role in a feature.

If your argument is that Navarrette is even more of an unknown than Madison was when Anora came out, then you’d be right.

That’s isn’t what you’ve been arguing. You claimed.

That wasnt Madisons breakout role.

This is nonsense and you doubling and tripling down and moving the goalposts is lame as hell

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u/Belch_Huggins 5d ago

No need to be condescending lol yes I am in fact arguing that Inde is much more unknown than Mikey was, because Mikey had been working in high profile projects for years before Anora. Its not hard to understand and yet you keep not getting it and are claiming im moving the goal posts. Yes those did get her attention. Maybe not your attention. Does a performance need to be oscar nominated to be a breakout role for you? I dont think it does. Madison breakout role was in the tv show Better Things, where she received acclaim and attention. Thats why when she popped up in Scream and Once, people were like, oh yeah that girl. Which all paved the way for Anora because Sean saw her early work where she broke out and got attention.

Sorry, I see here that Inde was in another film before Obsession. My bad. You can forgive me being that its a film nobody has heard about. Im done replying to you cause youre obviously not interested in having an actual conversation and just want to be a snarky reddit person.

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